Sunday, February 13, 2011

Okay, you know you've done this. You read a really good blog post. You come up with the perfect insightful comment. You type it in, do a preview check, and then hit Publish.

And you immediately see the error.

Argh! How could you have missed that? How embarrassing. Maybe it's a misspelled word. Or a totally wrong word. Or some strange punctuation you know you couldn't have typed. But there it is. Published. With your name on it.

What do you do now? You could delete your comment, but that will leave a "this message deleted by owner" notice - or something like that - which will be more obvious than your error. You could leave a second message, i.e. "Ha ha, sorry, I'm all thumbs this morning." Or you could just ignore it and let people think you're an idiot with ten thumbs.

Which do you do? Is this covered in the bloggers' etiquette guide? Is there a bloggers' etiquette guide? I think this is an important question (or at least a common one) and we need a consensus.

My current word count:13,077

I'm currently enjoying: Absolutely, Positively by Heather Webber (Yes, I know I switched books in mid-read but I've been waiting for this one.)

Groaner of the day: The friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought this was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not.

He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him.

So the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop.

Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that: Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.

16 comments:

My problem is I usually don't see that 'error' because when I re-read, I read for what I want to be there not what's really there. Now if I come back in 2 days, then I'll see the error. LOL. If you find a blogger etiquette guide, please let me know. Hope you have a wonderful and Happy Valentine's Day.

Sorry, Dru. I should warn you that my selection criteria for the groaners is it has to make me laugh. Not smile, not even quietly chuckle. It has to earn a laugh. So read them in "your daytime situation" at your own risk. *grin*

BTW, I missed your last comment on my Friday blog - my nose is getting better, thanks. Internal swelling is going down so I can breathe through it and I never get racoon eyes so it doesn't look bad at all. But my glasses resting on it feel like they weigh a ton.